Tom Lane wrote:
> Tommi Maekitalo <t.maekitalo@epgmbh.de> writes:
> > I installed 7.4beta5, created a data-dir and tried to start postgresql with
> > pg_ctl without initdb. As expected, this will fail. But pg_ctl tells me
> > "postmaster successfully started", after a fatal error, which looks very
> > confusing. When I use -l for specifying a logfile, I don't even see the
> > error, but only the success-message.
>
> If you don't use -w, then pg_ctl doesn't wait around to see whether the
> postmaster started or not. It'd probably be a good idea for it to issue
> a less positive message in this case, maybe only "postmaster launched".
>
> I also wonder why -w isn't the default.
The following patch changes the message from "started" to "starting" for
non-"-w" starts. I will keep it for 7.5.
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Index: src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -c -c -r1.36 pg_ctl.sh
*** src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh 14 Aug 2003 18:56:41 -0000 1.36
--- src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.sh 23 Oct 2003 16:49:56 -0000
***************
*** 399,406 ****
fi
done
$silence_echo echo "done"
fi
- $silence_echo echo "postmaster successfully started"
fi # start or restart
exit 0
--- 399,408 ----
fi
done
$silence_echo echo "done"
+ $silence_echo echo "postmaster successfully started"
+ else
+ $silence_echo echo "postmaster starting"
fi
fi # start or restart
exit 0
